Lightning strikes around the address

lightning_activity7 fields7 of these fields open in the demo

Source: MET Norway Frost lightning archive
Geography: The address point
Reported stale after: 7 days
Access: Requires an API key granted this section
Contract version: 1
In packages: hazard_screen

What this does not say

Quoted verbatim from the section’s warnings field, exactly as the API returns it. They are not translated: a translation would show something other than what your response actually contains.

Cloud-to-ground strikes located by the national sensor network with a typical accuracy of a few hundred metres. Counts are only meaningful for the archive window archive_from..archive_to; when the archive is shorter than 365 days the 365-day counts are lower bounds, and an empty archive returns nulls, not zeros.

Fields

2 of 7 fields are value fields — the ones that decide whether a record actually says anything. The rest are context: identifiers, codes and timestamps. Fields marked “open” return values to anonymous callers; the rest require a key.

Field	Type	Role	Demo
strikes_within_1km_365d	integer \| null	context	open
strikes_within_5km_365d	integer \| null	value	open
strikes_within_5km_archive	integer \| null	context	open
nearest_strike_m	integer \| null	value	open
nearest_strike_time	string \| null	context	open
archive_from	string \| null	context	open
archive_to	string \| null	context	open

Fetch this section

curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643?include=lightning_activity"

# paginated, one section at a time
curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643/sections/lightning_activity?limit=25"

Try it now

This is a real call against the public demo, from here. What appears below is what the API returned — not a sample.